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“Duncan Edwards was then, and has always remained to me, incomparable. His death after the Munich crash in 1958, when he was only twenty-one, but with eighteen caps already, was as far as football is concerned the biggest single tragedy that has happened to England and to Manchester United.” - Sir Matt Busby “When people ask me about Duncan, I feel terrible trying to explain to them how good he was. They just expect to be able to see what he was like on television - but they are never going to see it. You’ve only got to ask people who saw him play to realise how great he was. You see, he didn’t have a fault. I felt I could hold my own with anyone. That was part of the marvellous training we once had at Old Trafford in our youth, something which, I believe, the youngsters of today lack. Anyway, I always fancied my chances with anyone - with one exception. That was Duncan Edwards. He was the chap who always made one feel inferior.” - Sir Bobby Charlton “Duncan Edwards was a colossus, and if he had lived would, I think, have broken the record number of England caps. He was certainly in the same strata as Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore and Billy Wright, perhaps the best ever. He was physically strong, had great power, a good football brain, ability both on the ground and in the air, he was fast - in fact, he was the complete player.” Bobby Robson - England team-mate of Duncan’s and later England manager. |
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